IRA Dina Feitelson Research Award

Min Li, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Min Li, associate professor at College of Education, University of Washington at Seattle, an assessment expert with a deep interest in understanding how student learning can be accurately and adequately assessed both in large-scale testing and classroom settings.

Karen K. Wixson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
Karen K. Wixson is the Dean of the School of Education at University of North Carolina Greensboro. Previously she was Professor of Education at the University of Michigan where she served as Dean from 1998-2005. Before receiving her doctorate in reading education at Syracuse University, Dr. Wixson worked as both a remedial reading specialist and a learning disabilities teacher. Dr. Wixson has published widely in books and journals in the areas of reading curriculum, instruction, and assessment. She is also co-author of a textbook on the assessment and instruction of reading and writing difficulties, and co-editor of books on Response to Intervention (RTI), and implementing the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts. She has been a long-time participant in the development of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading tests, and is currently a member of the NAEP Validation Studies Panel. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Reading Conference/Literacy Research Association and the International Reading Association (IRA), as Co-chair of the IRA Commission on RTI, and is a member of IRA’s newly formed Literacy Research Panel.

Heather Newman, Tukwila School District, Tukwila, Washington
Heather Newman completed her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Washington in 2009. She is currently a literacy instructional coach in the Tukwila School District outside of Seattle, Washington.